Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I eat next to nothing.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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The only lethal terrorist to immigrate to the United States as an adult and conduct an attack shortly after arriving is Tashfeen Malik, who was born in Pakistan.
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If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
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Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.
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'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
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One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.
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Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
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I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.
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I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
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We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.
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I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.
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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
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I want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming.
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In a way, I feel that we're always connected, maybe you and me, we've been connected - not only now, but before. That's why we've crossed paths. And this manifests beautifully for me in fables, old television, novels in Thailand, but now we try to ignore these themes and stories. That's why now when we make "ghost" films, they have a certain stock quality to their effects, a certain formula, and I miss how it used to be.
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It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
